Finally made an issue for this:
issues.frontierstore.net
It was an issue before the legacy split, but I was able to work around it by switching to horizons and using an IF there to properly clear my bounties. Now I don't have that luxury so onto the tracker it goes.
tl;dr The game has become incredibly triggerhappy about handing out federal/imperial bounties and trying to clear them by handing yourself in just results in them getting slapped straight back onto you for the next minor offence no matter how small.
edit: to show how annoying this is, I just went from a clean slate to this in one go, for doing a single scan misison:
the 1200 is fine and expected. The 20k is incredibly annoying - not because of the credits, but because of being locked out of every federal starport until I can deal with it.
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It was an issue before the legacy split, but I was able to work around it by switching to horizons and using an IF there to properly clear my bounties. Now I don't have that luxury so onto the tracker it goes.
tl;dr The game has become incredibly triggerhappy about handing out federal/imperial bounties and trying to clear them by handing yourself in just results in them getting slapped straight back onto you for the next minor offence no matter how small.
edit: to show how annoying this is, I just went from a clean slate to this in one go, for doing a single scan misison:
the 1200 is fine and expected. The 20k is incredibly annoying - not because of the credits, but because of being locked out of every federal starport until I can deal with it.
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